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ADVERTISEMENT EXTILIORDINALY: TO THE SONS , 0 FREDOM. A General Meeting Will be'held to-morrow, Wed ne;day the 12th July, at the Crown and Anchor Ta,, vern, in the Strand, to consider of ~ ome mode of re- lieving Colonel Wardle from his late pecuniary um barassments, arising not Isom any extravagance of his own ; but from a generous motive, fo reward the exertions of Mrs. Ann Clarke, who, for the last eight months, has been co-operating with the Co lonel, night and day, in the service of their Country. ' Ir is troped that none will attend but those who entirely approve of Colonel Wardle's charatter. and condba, and who are.at the same time, friends t 6 a Parliamentary Reform. - The Chair will be taken at twelve o'clock. C. W. Chairman. MAILS. P.ltik VEC...4 Dublin, t Waterford. DUE--I Gottenburgh, Malta, r Lisbon, i Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS PAY AT TM/ELVIS. O'CLOCK. - - • 691 Red. Ann. 68i 1 Ornnitim - pr. THE SUN. soI.IM QUI& DICIAI lALSUM AUDIAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1:09. The following letter may be considered as'coming f:om an official source : WOLKERSDORPF, JUNE 18. " I had scarcely sent off my last letter when I w3s informed of the details of a slight affair at Raab, which the French call, a great victory, and .for which they will not fail to cause a Te Deum to be sung. This is the whole result of it :—On the 15th in the morning the Archduke JOHN, at the., bead of 23,000, troops of the line, and about 17,000 of the ilungarian.lnsurreetion, was attacked by 50,000 men near Raab. The Archduke ,with 'his troops of the line, had all the advantage of the day, and the French lost upwards •of 2000 killed and wounded. But the right . wing, composed of the Insutreetion which had never seen ser-_ vice, having' fallen back with too Much preci pitation, the left wing was under the necessity of retreating. - The enemy did not pursue either th e one or thy_ other, and we bave lost 1500 killed and wounded, oud prisoners of tlie. new levy.— It appears, e%en, !,ave since resumed the old position, the French having retired behind the Raab. I am' anxious to send off this account to yota, because you will hear at the same'titue of the departure of the Imperial family from Buda, which has not the least conneetion with the battle, for it took place' four days before, and this slight check would not haye rendered it necessary. "The Deputies, PERGEN and HARDEGq, are just now setting off on their return, and have not ob tained any thing—They did not speak in the name =of the Conqueror, t hut he had permitted then to be the bearers of the complaints of the stomachs of their fellow-citizens—they asked for oxen, and they were told de,manger du mouton. In,t he mean time we are flying over Saxony; another of our Generals is making a promenade at Bayreuth and Bamburgh—our Tyrolean allies are eating asparagus at .Kempten and Mernmingen— CHASUE.4%a of the Tyrol, and GUILA! of Croatia, are at Ciagenfurrh—MAamoNT has passed into the terra firma of Venice, and we have re-entered Fiume and Trieste, where the brave English are assisting us. All Dalmatia is in our and our gpod friends, the Turks, hands. In theii retreat the French left Many_ sick in the hospitals, among whom, were' three Generals wounded in some, for , iner affair." Last night some more Dutch and German Papers arrived,' the former to the sth inst. Though they do not bring any news of a very important, their contents are in general very satisfactory. The spirit of resistance to the French seems to pervade almost , every part of the Continent, and if BUONA- Panig should sustain another 'defeat, or even if he should remain much longer inactive, the whole of the North of Germany will be in arms against France, • - We 'have not such accurate mean's of judging of the state of Italy, but from !all the accounts 'which h.ye reached us, we have every reason to_believe that the inhabitants of that Peninsula would eagerly seize 'any opportunity that , afforded a rational C lance of success to throw off the French yoke, and we entertain the most sanguine holies, that we shall shortly have to communicate to our readers some v . ry otifying intelligence from that quarter. These Papers giVe us, very little information re e':ting the Armies on the Danube, but w;-; confess we are inclined to suspedi from the circumstance of two or three days having ,elapsed without any IVll:nitvers l e aving reached Rotterdam, that the Prench have sustained some .fresh disasfrt. A number of reports were in circulation last night : tl.ey were brought by a vessel which has arrived :tom Heligoland. It was said that pnother had been fought on the 26th, ult. in which the French had been defeated, with the loss of bo,ouo men, and that 20,000 Prussian troops had joined the Austrian army. We fear'however, that these ru mours are unfounded. It was also said that FERDI- NAND the Vlithshad been assassinated, We have extracted 4om American Papers to the tOth ult, which have been received, an account of an attempt made by Captain BENNET, in 'Officer . in the serv ice of the United States, to seize a dem - - . ter in Canada, an event which is Baia to have created some misunderstanding between the two qovern ments.—The other intelligence in those Papers is of no importance. WE are confidently assured that ealy in this month a day was appointed for a general insurrec tion throughout lilnover. The excesses of the French v t ihen they first, took possession of that country were horrtble beyond description ; and if by the severest tyranny the people had not been kept in subjection, their feelings would long since have broken out in , the most furious efforts of revenge. The plan. for 'the insurre6lion, if it has bee'n well devised, might be expeeled to lea'd tO similar ,movements in various places adjacent, notwithstanding all the vigilance of the French, and the terror which they excited. . We have authority to state, that the Austrian of f Cial account of the Battle of Aspern will appear in Supplement to the Gazette of this evening. Yesterday morning M. 1)E -LA VEGA, the 'late te. speCtable Deputy from the Province of Asturias, ar. •rived in town. We bdlieve his of jea is'to apply to this Government for arms. It is with great pleasure we remark in the Dublin Gazette a most gratifying • instance of improvement. Notice has been given by Josh KNOX GRoGAN, Esq. of Johnstown, in the County ofWeiford; of his having planted within this year, 83,245 1 oak, ash. and other valuable trees, on hit estate. This Get] , .le= man has, since he came into the enjoy men:. cr his estate, in 1793, planted 653,923 of the inc•st valuable trees. The ,hail-:storm • was seriously felt last week at Greenwich, and did considerable 'dam - age to the grass-work of the Hospivl. The market-gardens in the vicinity were severely„injured., The weight and size ,of the hail-stones were astonishing; some of them which • were picked. up and measured'at the. time, were an inch and a half iin circumference ; unustially hard, and of an oblong form'. - Captain Barclay was pursuing his task at eight o'clock yesterday. morning, in high spirits. Bets are now ten to one in his favour. The influx of com pany at 'Newmarket, during the last week, was such, that a bed could not be had, and the towns within a dozen miles were filled with the overflow. The horse-racing began yesterday, and 'the bustle was greater than ever. The ground on, which :the Captain walked was so thronged, that his ft ientis had great difficulty to keep the way clear. By a ship which, has arrived at,Liverpool, we have obtained a series of. Bahama, Gazettes; tli) to . the 25th May. The , following are the only articles of any consequence iti.these Papers : - ".NASSAU, MAY I.—The transports, with a de , tachment of the 7th West India,Regitnent on board, and which put to sea on Saturday, 191-Jamaica; have since returned, in consequence of adverse winds, as has also itis Majes.ty's . ship Sandwicla. Their ulti mate destination was supposed to be the Bay of Hon duras. " MAY ,24.—We are infor me d th at C O I. B ROWNE, from St. Vwcents, the late Superintendant General of the Indian, nation, has presented 'a Memorial, stating, that a quantity ot aloe, hetnp, pitch, tar, and turpentine, may be manufactured in the Bahama Islands, equal to theconsumption of all the navy and tnerchanttnen of tbe . Kingdom of Great Britain.— This is a matter of so important a nature as it re spects our naval interest, that we hope every encou ragement will be given to the Bahama Pl anters to furnish those articles, tinder the uncertainty of sup ply from the Baltic an United States. " The duties a: the ,triavannah are as follow (al though the arrangement is . - juite concluded, it is . not yet ptzblicly n( , :fiEd rby the Cabild - o), flour in American vessels l u dollars; in Spanish 6 dolla . rs;, rice, hemp, hogs lard, and the various kinds of pulse ond vegetables, in American. vessels, 50. per cent. and in Spanish 30 per cent. All kinds of linen and silk goods, 22 per cent. cotton ,and woollen goods, per cent. and municipal duties instead of 36 per cent. Deposits of all kinds of produce of the - United States, are liable only to 1 per cent. and the niunici pal duity." On Sunday morning, daring Divine Service, a gentle Jessica, of the tribe of Benidinin,cleganily at tired, did public penance in the Church of St. .Paul, Covent-garden, for calling a Christian neighbour by a name, which is odious to every Woman of reputa tion. The crowd on this occasio n was extreme l y great, and the fair offender against the established rules of politeness was followed home, after the ex hibition, by a long train Of speCtators. • Yesterday morning, between seven ;nd eight o'clock, as a man of the name of Taylor, who was gardener to Mr. Elliot, the brewer, of Pimlico, ,was ,passing through Brewer-street, apparently in ' good health, he fell down, and was picked up by some persons passing at the time, and asked if he had. hurt himself: he answered in the negative. He walked on a few paces Itirther, and felkdown again lifeless. We have been told that Colonel WARDLE, before. he resolved to - resist the claim of Mr. WRIGHT in a Court of Law, proposed to render the debt a party matter, and suggested to Sir FkitNcrs BURDETT and his other political allies, that•a subscription for dis charging this demand Upon Mrs. - CLARKE would be a proper requital to her for the services whicit she had rendered to the great cause in which they were engaged. Sir FRANCIS, however, having acquired some degree of pecuniary discretion, or, as the vul gar say, '4 - srpelling a rat," rejefied the proposition tat oi.ce, and all the rest of the party deetiled it most prudent to follow his example; NAVAL NEWS. , PLYMOUTH, JULY g.---A, fleet, of about 30 sail, appeared off this port yesterday, which was stated to have been the West India fleet ; in the evening they were all obliged to put in here by contrary winds, when they proved to be a fleet of transpoits and victuallers,, from Lisbon, under convoy of a sloop of war. Came down from Barnpool, and anchored in the Sound, his Majesty's ketch Gleaner, of i 0 gims; and the Ann hired armed brig. SHEaRNESS, JULY 9.—Arrived the Urgent gun brig and Deptford tender, ,with voluweers and,icn pressed men for the fleet. Sailed bis,Majesty's ship Wbolwich and Lavinia, to Deal. JuLlr to...—Sailed his Majesty's ships St. Fijrenza ‘'and Salsette for Deal. POSTSIVIOUTH, JULY 10.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Sprightly, Ilardy, Gamtier, Redpole, Venera ble, Centaur, and Raleigh., to the Westward; also the James, HAY, and Thomas and Judith, for Lon don. DEAL, JULY 10.—Arrived from the river, and sailed, the Fame, DUNCAN, for Jamaica. . Sailed,, his Majesty's ships Blake; Repulse, San Domingo, Audacious, ViCiorious, Theseus, and Den mark, on a cruize off Flushing. YARMOUTH, JULY 10.—Arrived, 'the' Havoc, tun -brig, from the Baltic; she brings intelligence tha t Scßua. is not dead, but only wounded, and is for tifying.the Island of Rugen ; and reports that a re vialution- has broken out at Petersburgh, headed by the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE. MARGATE, ' JULY 10. What is generally termed the season at this fashion able Watering Place, has commenced this year with distinguished eclat, .which in some degree may ,be accounted for .by the gr e at number of Military at present stationed in this town, in readiness for em barkation at.a moment's notice. The Anglesea Mi litia left the Barracks ten days ago; to make room for part of the 6i n, gib, and 91 st regiments of the the line. The excellent Band of the gist have play . ed every evening since they came, in Cecil-square, some of the most favourite Scotch ails, to the gratk cation of a numerous company assembled round them. 'On Tuesday last, a Pilot, by the help ot• a Class, 'discovered a small boat, with three men, rowing out at sea, and at such a distance as caused suspicion ; he got a sailing-boat manned immediately, and overtook them, when ; they - piore4" to be three French pri soners, who were attempting to escape to France. .They. were bro.ignt back and safe4' lodged on board a King's ship, then riding in the:Roads. • PALLISTER and BouSFIELD opened their Rooins . on _Saturday evening, for the tirst • Ainong the fashionable arrivals are the following Viscount Sonthwell, Lord Kirkcudbright, Mr. Nugent,- Colonel Allen, General dude, Mr. Phillips, Mr Goulding, Mrs. Brother son, Capt. Hatton, R.N. Mr. and Mrs: Lousa'da, Mr. and Mrs. I. Slater, Mrs. Da Costa, Lady Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead, Dcictor Luard, Mrs. Cornbrune, Capt. and Miss Cary, Mr. Pope, &c. &c. .• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET IUI,Y MEETING, 1809. ~ • MONDAY; JULY 10. Ld. F. G. Osborne's Poppy, 3u. ilb. beat Grosvenor' Puck, Bst. slb. Across the Flat, cogs. h. to 4on Poppy• . The July Stakes, a Subscription of Sot's. each, 3ogs. ft. by 2.. yr old colts, carryingBst. 61b. and fillies Sat. 410. Two , - yr Old Course. Mr. Wilson's brother to Spindle Mr. Blachford names Mr. K.ellerman's b. c. Jeroboam, by Gohanna, out of a sister to Alaric's dam - - 2 Mr. Mellish names Mr. J. Snaith'S ch. f. by Popinjay, darn by Trumuator - 3 Mr. Mellish names Lord Stawell's 1. by Gohanna, out • of Gipsey, the dam of Bustard D. of Gratton's f. by Waxy, out of Rattle Ld. Foley's br. f. by Young Whiskey, out of a Tandem mare, bought of Mr. Goodisson Mr. Abbey's b. f. Cassandra, by Eagle, out of Clorinda's darn • Ld. Foley's c. by Don Quixotic, out of Lunius's dam. Mr. Elwes's b..c. by Kill DeVit; dani by john - Bull, out of Dick Andrews' darn - pd Mr. Harbord's b. t. by Eagle, out of a sister to Pet worth' - - - .pd Mr.' Emden names Mr. Goodinge's ch. f. Maid of the Mill, by Sorcerer, out of the Maid ot Kent Ld F. G. Osborne's b. c. (dead) by Shuttle - - - pd. Sir C. Bunhury's.b.,c, tr y Young Whiski , y, darn by Stamford, bought ot Col. Childers - pd Mr. Mellish names Lord jersey's 1. by Ambrosio, dam • r - • i• - - by Sllyseraper, out ot- pd 5 to a agst The lunge could place but three. Mr. Norton's Marquis, Bst. Ilb. beat Mr. Thornhill's Ralphina, Bst. D. M. aoogs. h. ft.-6 t 0 .4 agst Mar quis. Sir C. Turner's Chloris, - Bst. 21b. beat D. of Grafton's Dolefbl Sst.- Ott: , agst. Ab. M. aoogs.-3 to t, agst Major Wilsou's tuniper, beat Ld Lowther's Pelisse, Bst. 71b. each. 0: I. !clogs. —2 to lon juniper. Ld. jersey's Langton, Bst. ialb. rec. from Ld G. H. Ca vendish's t'odagra, sst. 31b. Two-yr. old Course, sags. The Melpomene Frigate, Capt. FREDERICK WAR RRN, lately W a severe atlion in the Great Belt, with 20 Danish gun-boats. The firigate being at anchor, about three or.four miles from a most valu able English convoy, in the middle of the night per ceived the boats pulling towards the convoy ; upon which she attacked them, arid an aEtiou commenc ed, which continued without intermission, for three hours, when the boats were compelled to sneak into .their hiding places. For more than two hours it wai a perfect calm, and the ship obliged to remain at anchor ; but a breeze sprung up, and, she soon dispersed the enemy. We are sorry to add, the loss of the 4 1 11elponane is not less than 29 wounded, andfive killed. To the spirited conduct of Captain WARREN, this valuable convoy is highly indebted for its safety. . ,PHI4.4PELPHIII, JUNE 7. DESERTION TO CANADA.—We find in several of the paper 4 some animadversions oil an unhappy af fair which took 'place in the early part of the last month within the Canada line. The, public papers to the eastward and westward have, during the establishment ,of. the public force .on the frontier towards Canada, represented, the de sertions from the United , States' troops on the fron tier, into Canada, as immense :; indeed it is too true that the desertions had become a mitten of the ut;• most seriousness ; and the detached stations and re latively small numbers at each.station, had rendered an exaa and • uniform discipline Utterly- itnpra6. i tica ble,. where the battalion officers .were themselves all inexperienced; of various habits, and newly brought, together,- ; The hostile disposition'of the Canadian Governtneht, and the couespondinglemper of its • adherents, stimulated, no doubt, by the embargo -. upon 'commercial dealings, and the prospect of a war, had induced the Canadians to hold forth every temptation to our troops to f desert; great numbers did desert, and were received with open arms and . marked attention in Canada. These things we note merely. to account for the temper of irritation.which induced the unfortunate transaction to which we, have 'immediate reference : a transaction, however,- which is not to be justified or countenanced, any more .than the similar infra ion of .our territory in Vermont by a British military party, tO,or 12 years • ago; by another British Military party at Detroit, four or five years ago ; the outrage and, murder. of .. Pearce in the waters of New York; the outrage of , the Chesapeake by Admiral Berkley; the burning of a French ship in our waters - about the same pe riod ; or the. outrage done by the - British ship'ille, /ampas. We note all these facts, and might note others of older, and some of recent date, and SiMi•• . tar charaaer, not to justify the condtid of the United, States' Officer who violated the territory of Canada, but to reprobate the false ideas of citity., and the erro neous conduct of the Officer, and to strew how dill; ferently' such 'person's' guilty, of -such cpndd6l are treated by 4116 - United States; from the - treatment which those have received who' violated ow - terri tory and rights. • If our Government were to follow the' pretedent set them by Gieat Britain, Captain Bennett - would, like Captain Whitby who murdered Pearce, or, Admiral Berkeley, who murdered and hanged sci- many AmeriCans, be promoted to a higher station and com Mandy he would be appoint ed to a Major 9r a Colonel, and he -would have beon - distinguished for future promotion. It we do not' 'manage matters better, we act at least with a, decorum more, crsistent with the ., laws of nations and•the rights of jurisdiction. The following is an authentic account of the affair; contained in a letter from Oswegatchie, Of the date the-4th May : " An unhappy affair took place in this neigh ' bourhood alew days ago, - which'has Traduced much warmth in Canada. Captain Bennett, of the 6th United States Regiment, left this . pace on Sunday last, to•proceed for :his station up the river, and had gone about 20, miles, when the wind beading, alp vessel came to an anchor. On Monday, the wind still proving adverse, Captain Holmes; who corn- - manded the vessel, went on shore to get previsions ; a Set eant of .the 6th Regiment, and one or two vates went on shore also for - the same purpoSe.— Captain Bennett, who was on board, thinking the Skirjeant and men delayed too long on shore, sent his own boat for them anti brought, them of; while the men had been on shore, they were told that a de serter from their regiment was in that neighbour •hOod, and the Serjeant had gone and_ ascertained the tact, he had seen and recognized the man as a deserter, without making himself known. " The Serjeant, upon returning on board, report eels the citcumstance to his. Commanding Officer, thus accounting for his delay On Acre, and stated that the place at which the deserter ,was did not exceed three quarters of a mile distance. . Captain 'Bennett, a young inexperienced Officer, perhaps nop 'very conversant with the law of 'nations, and aaing under a - zeal which under a more judicious diredion might lead to a Condud honourable- and glorious, unhappily conceived it 'to be Os duty and 'his right to seize the deserter any where, he determined to detach the Serjeant - with two men with, orderl to bring thedeserter'on board; 'and not to molest any one nor to use. any sort of violence, unless attacked with Violence, 2nd then to repel force by force; and' in ease the deserter attempted to escape; - to make use of his artna._%The Serjeant went ashore in Captain Bennet's boat, leaying one man in charge of the boat ; - the Serjeant and two men proceeded through the woods, ,seized the deserter, and were condnding him to the boat, when a number of aimed people appeared issuing from the village run ning towards them; the deserter .teeing this suC• Cour, made an effort and succeeded in extricating himself, and ran with great ;peed towards the crowd, and from the military party"; the Serjeant cried out, that if he did not stop he would order the men ,t 6 fire ; but, he proceeding, the Serjeant ordered his fell, Serjeant be 1 bang g -I d - il te rs rodsmen d t i o st fi an r% , a w nd he t n he hdeseteerltle;r_ the party were pursued, but made their retreat good to the boat, and got sate on board the vessel, bore - , away, and arrived at this placei.", . This statement is tr i m a respeffible citizen, who was on board the vessel, and hid a fair view of .the transactions. 1 The papers that were strenuous advocates for Mr. WARDLE _before the late trial, are now as . fOrcible • in their Condetination of his conduct. There are, indeed two or three exceptions, but even the writers : in the papers alluded to are ashamed of s'ying any, tiling.in palliation of his conduet, and therefore en deavour to shift public attention to the "subject of the Inquiry, to, which he was indebted for all his spiiriotis t and transient popularity. Never was there a more sudden revolution in crtdit than 'has taken place respecting this great lieforiner, and fallen as he - is, he has not the consolation of believing that any body can pity his fate but those who are despisetrby • all. wise and honest men, and I,l'llo would be deemed, still tnore des'picable it they were to announce their ,cornpassion to-the world. Saturday morning - a duel was fought in a meadow adjoining Plymouth Dud, between Captain Fowrit and Lieutenant COOKE, both . of the First We4t, - Yok Militia, the latter of wuom was shot through the thigh, but the wound is not considered dap-